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From: "Mike" <>
Subject: Re: [FREEMAN-L] Racial heritage
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:57:53 -0400
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The other thing most people do not realize is that more often than not the
relationship between the slaves and their owners were like what you
describe....many, many former owners gave their newly freed slaves land and
the use of their surnames and they lived together for at least another
generation. Here in Bartow County Georgia, the county genealogist says you
will find this 9 times out of 10 here.

Unfortunately we will never really understand that relationship. With all
the flap over Confederate symbols and cries of racism there was more to the
slave-owner relationship than meets the eye.

Mike Wennin
Come Visit the Cameron County Genealogy Project!
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero

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Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [FREEMAN-L] Racial heritage


> On another family line of mine, I had a gentleman answer a query about my
5th
> great grandfather. We traded info for several weeks before we discovered
> that I was white and he was black. Yet we were both researching the same
> person. As it turned out, my 5th g grandfather owned his 5th great
> grandfather and was the one who gave them their freedom and also gave them
> land on which most of the family still lives on today. Together we were
> able to enhance each others research. Although there is no known blood
> connection, there is certainly a shared heritage here. Don't discount
racial
> diversity when doing your research or you may loose out on important
> information about your family.
>
> Audrae Turner Mathis
> (Edmund >Edmund>Edmund>Edmund>William>Thomas>Thomas>Lucius>Thomas R.>
Frank
> Lincoln> Elizabeth Freeman>Pat Porter>me)
>
>

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